Solutions

Service Discovery is a simple PHP command to collect and store AWS information such as EC2s and RDSs in the current region and save them with their credentials into an encrypted JSON file on S3. The script later notifies each service via SSH and executes the service discovery client on each instance. Each client downloads the JSON file and uses it to configure different applications. It can easily be automated through Rundeck or Jenkins to be executed after each deploy.

Around a year ago I was playing with W3 Total Cache plugin on HHVM while I got an annoying warning

Warning: Parameter 1 to W3_Plugin_TotalCache::ob_callback() expected to be a reference, value given in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 3269

The funny part is that one of the functions was passing by reference which I still could not find the reason for it, maybe it was a limitation in PHP 4.3. Removing one character “&” fixed the issue so I submitted a pull request to the author although the repository currently does not accept pull request. Later on as PHP 7.0 was released, the issue started to show on PHP as well which brought more attention to this small fix. The users comments included anger such as user @kmob2 who said

this is becoming a running gag

Even more user @pratham2003 proposed a one line bash command to solve the problem

AWS Client is an open source JavaFX GUI desktop application for Amazon EC2, providing monitoring and filtering controls over your EC2 server instances in different regions. It also allows you to easily interact with your instances via your SSH client. More functionality will be added soon so follow my blog and watch AWS Client code on GitHub